Patch 4.0.6 - PTR Build 13529

Feedbot · Jan 19, 2011

Patch 4.0.6 - PTR Build 13529
A new build will be deployed on test realms very soon with a bunch of new changes. You probably already saw some of them in the official notes update from the past week, keep in mind that datamining isn't an exact science, if you're not sure about a change and if it's not in the official patch notes, wait for a confirmation from a blue poster before you whine about it.

Achievements Changes

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Professions

Turtles All the Way Down is now also rewarded in Deepholm, Mount Hyjal, Twilight Highlands, Uldum.

Quests

Winterspring Quests now requires 58 Quests, down from 60.
Mysteries of the Marsh now requires 52 Quests, down from 54.
Nagrand Slam now requires 85 quests, down from 87.

Professions Changes

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Alchemy

Alchemy: Free Action Potion now lasts 30 sec if the player is level 80 or lower. For higher levels, the duration is equal to [ 30 - (Player Level - 80) * 4 ], that's 10 sec at level 85 if you suck at maths.
Alchemy: Living Action Potion now lasts 3 sec, down from 5 sec.
Alchemy: Transmute: Pyrium Bar now requires 1 x Elementium Bar and 1 x Volatile Earth, down from 4x of each.

Blacksmithing

Elementium Deathplate now has 321 Strength (-20) and 208 Mastery Rating (-20). Now has a Yellow Socket (+10 Strength socket bonus)
Elementium Girdle of Pain now has 233 Strength (-20) and 149 Haste Rating (-20). Now has a Yellow Socket (+10 Strength socket bonus)
Elementium Gutslicer now requires 4 x Hardened Elementium Bar (Down from 25), Truegold x 5, Chaos Orb x 3 (up from 1).
Hardened Elementium Girdle now has 233 Strength (-20) and 149 Mastery Rating. (-20). Now has a Blue Socket (+10 Dodge socket bonus)
Hardened Elementium Hauberk now has 321 Strength (-20) and 208 Parry Rating. (-20). Now has a Blue Socket (+10 Parry socket bonus)
Light Elementium Belt now has 233 Intellect (-20) and 149 Spirit (-20). Now has a Yellow socket (+10 Intellect socket bonus)
Light Elementium Chestguard now has 321 Intellect (-20) and 208 Critical strike rating (-20). Now has a Yellow socket (+10 Intellect socket bonus)
Persuader no longer requires Skin of Shadow to be crafted.

Cooking

Cooking: Broiled Dragon Feast now requires Dragon Flank x 3 (down from 6) and Delicate Wing x 2 (Down from 4)
Cooking: Seafood Magnifique Feast now requires Highland Guppy x 2 (down from 4), Lavascale Catfish x 2 (Down from 4), and Fathom Eel x 2 (Down from 4)

Engineering

Engineering: Nitro Boosts had "They rarely explode violently, so don't worry about that." added to its description.

Enchanting

Enchanting: Enchant Cloak - Shadow Armor no longer increases Stealth.
Enchanting: Enchant Weapon - Avalanche now also procs from spell damage.
Enchanting: Runed Elementium Rod now requires 515 Enchanting.

Jewelcrafting

Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond now increases Shield Block Value by 1%, down from 5%.

Leatherworking

Chestguard of Nature's Fury now has 321 Intellect (-20) and 221 Mastery Rating (-20). Now has a Red Socket (+10 Haste Rating socket bonus)
Lightning Lash now has 233 Intellect (-20), 149 Spirit (-3) and 169 Haste Rating (-10). Now has a Red Socket (+10 Intellect socket bonus)
Stormleather Sash now has 233 Intellect (-20) and 116 Mastery Rating (-20). Now has a Red Socket (+10 Intellect socket bonus)
Twilight Scale Chestguard now has 321 Intellect (-20) and 214 Critical strike rating (-20). Now has a Red Socket (+10 Haste Rating socket bonus)
Shifting Cloak no longer requires Skin of Shadow to be crafted.

Tailoring

Tailoring: Cenarion Herb Bag no longer requires Morrowgrain to be crafted.
Tailoring: Darkglow Embroidery now increases your Spirit by 580 for 15 sec instead of restoring 800 Mana.
Tailoring: Lightweave Embroidery now increases Intellect by 580 instead of spell power.

Spell Changes
These changes are mostly the results of tooltip comparison, some changes might be outdated or just wrong because we suck at parsing data. If you have any doubt, check the official patch notes and if official patch notes do not exist for that change just assume it's very temporary or wrong.

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
New Items

Item Sets

PvP Item bonuses awarding +180 to a stat now give +90.
Increased Focus Regeneration (PvP Hunter) now increases the regeneration of your Focus by 5%, down from 10%.
Item - Druid T11 Restoration 4P Bonus is now cancelled when Lifebloom expires on your most recent Lifebloom target.

Death Knight (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Blood

Heart Strike now causes 175% weapon damage, up from 120%. Deals an additional 15% for each of your diseases present on the target, up from 10%.
Improved Death Strike now increases the damage done by Death Strike by 30/60/90%, up from 15/30/45%. Still increases critical strike chance by 3/6/9% and amount healed by 15/30/45%.
Scarlet Fever (Rank 2) now procs from Blood Plague. (Tooltip bugfix)

Frost

Chilblains now also causes your Chains of Ice to immobilize targets for 1/3 sec.

Unholy

Rage of Rivendare now increases damage of Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, and Festering Strike by 12/24/36%, down from 15/30/45%.
Shadow Infusion now increases the damage dealt by your Ghoul by 8%, down from 10%.

Glyphs

Inscription: Glyph of Dark Succor now causes your Death Strike ability to always restore at least 15% (down from 20%) of your maximum health when used while in Frost or Unholy Presence.

Druid (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)

The act of shapeshifting now frees the caster of "movement slowing effects" instead of "Movement Impairing effects".

Balance

Wild Mushroom detonation damage has been increased by 13%, from [ 747 to 904 ] Nature damage to [ 845 to 1022 ] Nature damage.
Fungal Growth now lasts 20 sec, up from 10 sec.
Moonkin Form no longer increases armor contribution from items and reduces all damage taken by 15% instead.
Typhoon now costs 16% of base mana, down from 32%.

Restoration

Tree of Life now also protects the caster from Polymorph effects.
Disentanglement is now a primary skill.

Hunter (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Beast Mastery

Animal Handler now increases Attack Power by 25%, up from 15%.

Marksmanship

Aimed Shot! (Master Marksman) now deals 203% ranged weapon damage, up from 103%. Both Aimed Shot and Aimed Shot! (Master Marksman) now scale from 72.4% of Ranged AP, up from 48%.
Arcane Shot now scales from 4.83% of Ranged AP, up from 4.2%
Chimera Shot now scales from 73.2% of Ranged AP, up from 48.8%

Survival

Black Arrow now deals 2035 Shadow damage over 15 sec, up from 1800. (+13%)
Explosive Shot now scales from 23.2% of Ranged AP, up from 20.5%.
Serpent Spread is no longer capped to 4 targets. (PTR change)

Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arcane

Mage Armor now reduces the duration of all harmful Magic effects used against you by 35%, down from 50%.

Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)

Forbearance (Divine Shield / Hand of Protection / Lay on Hands) now lasts 1 min, down from 2 min.

Holy

Protector of the Innocent healing has been reduced by 30%. Now heals for [ 2605 to 2997 ] at Rank 3, down from [ 3722 to 4282 ].

Protection

Vindication no longer causes your Hammer of Justice to interrupt creatures that are immune to stuns.

Retribution

Hand of Light now increases damage of Templar's Verdict, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm by 16.8%, down from 20%. Each point of Mastery increases the damage by an additional 2.1%, down from 2.5%.
Divine Storm now deals 100% weapon damage, up from 80%.
Repentance no longer breaks from damage from Censure.

Priest (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Holy

Chakra tooltip fixed to include Binding Heal in the first line of the description.
Circle of Healing now has a 10 yards radius, down from 18 yards.
State of Mind no longer increases the duration of Chakra, now Reduces the cooldown of your Chakra spell by 3/6 sec.

Discipline

Penance healing has been increased by 20%. Now heals for [ 2822 to 3189 ], up from [ 2351 to 2657 ]
Improved Power Word: Shield no longer increases damage absorbed by an additional % when cast on self. Now increases Increases the damage absorbed by your Power Word: Shield by 10/20%. (Up from 5/10%)
Power Infusion now has a 40 yards range, up from 30 yards.
Strength of Soul's Silence, Interrupt, and Dispel immunity now procs when you cast Inner Focus (on any target) instead of Power Word: Shield on yourself. Immunity now lasts 3/5 sec, up from 2/4 sec.

Shadow

Mind Blast damage has been increased by 60%. Now deals [ 1617 to 1709 ] damage, up from [ 1028 to 1086 ].
Mind Sear damage has been reduced by 30%. Now deals [ 104 to 113 ], down from [ 146 to 158 ].
Shadow Orb Power now Increases the damage done by your Shadow Orbs by 11.6%, down from 21.6%.
Mind Soothe now lasts 20 sec, up from 15 sec.

Glyphs

Inscription: Glyph of Pain Suppression now also let you cast Guardian Spirit while stunned.

Rogue (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Assassination

Garrote now costs 45 Energy, down from 50 Energy.

Combat

Blade Flurry now has a 10 sec cooldown and lasts "until cancelled".

Subtlety

Redirect now requires active combo points.
Elusiveness now reduces the cooldown of Cloak of Shadows by 10/15 sec, down from 15/30 sec.

Glyphs

Inscription: Glyph of Garrote now increases the duration of your Garrote's silence effect by 1.5 sec, down from 2 sec.

Shaman (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Elemental

Spiritwalker's Grace now lasts 15 sec, up from 10 sec.
Windfury Weapon now triggers 3 extra attacks, up from 2.
Lava Burst damage has been increased by 10%. Now deals [ 1394 to 1778 Fire Damage], up from [ 1267 to 1615 ] damage.

Restoration

Mana Tide Totem now affects raid members.

Glyphs

Inscription: Glyph of Hex now reduces the cooldown of your Hex spell by 10 sec, down from 15 sec.

Warlock (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Demonology

Fel Armor now causes you to be healed for 3% of any single-target spell damage you deal.
Demonic Aegis now increases the amount of health returned by Fel Armor by 50/100% (instead of mana, from the old version of Fel Armor)
Mana Feed no longer affects Drain Mana (Drain Mana is removed in 4.0.6)

Destruction

Improved Soul Fire no longer has a 6 sec cooldown.

Pet

Demonic Empowerment (Felguard) now also removes fear.

Warrior (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
Arms

Heroic Strike now scales from 60% of Attack Power, down from 93%.

Fury

Slam now deals 175% weapon damage plus 748. Up from 125% weapon damage plus 538.
Bloodsurge now also causes your instant and free Slam to deal 20% more damage.
Inner Rage now has a 30 sec cooldown and Reduces the cooldown of Heroic Strike and Cleave by 50% for 15 sec.
Recklessness now gives your special attacks an additional 50% to critically hit instead of giving your next 3 attacks a 100% chance to critically hit. Still lasts 12 sec and increases damage taken by 20%.
Raging Blow now deals 120% weapon damage, down from 145%.

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Germaximus · Jan 20, 2011

Strength of Soul's Silence, Interrupt, and Dispel immunity now procs when you cast Inner Focus (on any target) instead of Power Word: Shield on yourself. Immunity now lasts 3/5 sec, up from 2/4 sec.

What?
Cast inner focus on any target? What the crap? lol

Look at all those priest nerfs how yummy.

Patch 4.0.6 - PTR Build 13529

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